Florida Highway Patrol officials are frustrated with the more than 92,000 hit-and-run crashes investigated last year across the state.

Such crashes — up by nearly 7,500 from 2014 — are an increasing problem that needs to be stopped.

And troopers are hoping to do that with their annual week-long hit-and-run awareness campaign.

"There are so many people who don't understand the consequences and they aren't doing the right thing," Sgt. Kim Montes said. "How can you leave a person to die on the side of the road like a piece of trash?"

FHP kicked off its annual awareness campaign at a Monday news conference, which highlighted Florida's hit-and-run laws and how hard families of victims are fighting for closure.

But while they were talking about the need for awareness, troopers were also investigating yet another fatal hit-and-run — this one in Brevard County.

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Dec. 6 marked the two-year anniversary of the death of Melanie Exposito, who was riding on a bicycle with her older brother when a vehicle slammed into them and drove off.

Dec. 6 marked the two-year anniversary of the death of Melanie Exposito, who was riding on a bicycle with her older brother when a vehicle slammed into them and drove off.

Family and friends found Jason Rodeghier of Cocoa dead on the side of Satellite Boulevard about 7 a.m. after he never returned home from a morning jog, Montes said.

"There appears to be parts of a vehicle left at the scene," she said.

Troopers say 186 people — 20 in Central Florida — died last year in hit-and-run crashes. Eight of the Central Florida cases remain unsolved.

"Clearly this problem is not going away," Montes said. "And it's not just about the people who are killed. We are going to crashes daily, dozens of crashes daily, where people are hit-and-run victims."